Weird/fun prompt—how much marginal problem-solving capacity could you create by making good domestic whiteboards way more viable? Domestic whiteboards are usually either too small or too obtrusive. There's rarely enough unbroken wall space; free-standing boards eat huge sqftage.
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A ceiling-mounted retractable solution is appealing, but it seems hard to get the rigidity you'd need. Switchable glass seems promising. It's available as an aftermarket film @ ~$50/sqft. But it'd feel obtrusive to leave writing up for days, though, which is no good. …AR? :/pic.twitter.com/F7zgBM0hFO
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Whiteboards—particularly whiteboards persistent and big enough to accumulate writing for many days—create a change in consciousness! I straight-up think different thoughts when one's present. Doubly true in a collaborative situation.
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Lots of people mentioned putting whiteboards in their home offices, but I think if you really did this right, you would be able to have one on demand in your living room, for spontaneous use when conversation turned in that direction.
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Replying to @andy_matuschak
We have a chalkboard in ours, for that purpose.
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Maybe it’s a cultural change that’s necessary, then—so that people don’t perceive them as obtrusive. I suspect the aversive perception of visual noise is lizard-level though.
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